Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation
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Book
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Politics and Government - U.S.
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Publication Year
1984
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers, United States
Pages
95
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"The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What is the value of human life?" - Ronald Reagan
During the decade following the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973, more than 15 million unborn children were legally aborted - a figure that surpasses by more than ten times the combined total of American lives lost in all of the nation's wars.
In an effort to stimulate public awareness, Ronald Reagan forthrightly addressed the volatile issue in his first book written while President of the United States.
Drawing wisdom from some of the world's most respected thinkers and humanitarians, Reagan lays the groundwork for his position by citing philosophical similarities between arguments for racial discrimination and abortion. Medical infanticide, he says, is abortion's logical consequence.
"Regrettably," says Reagan, "we live at a time when some persons do not value all human life. They want to pick and choose which individuals have value. . . . In other words, 'quality control'. . . ."
Reagan examines the philosophy underlying the pro-abortion arguments and exposes a "quality of life" ethic in opposition to a "sanctity of life" ethic. Despite the innocent, harmless, and even positive sound of its rhetoric, the "quality of life" argument covers up a frighteningly selective evaluation of human worth.
The pivotal issue - cannot be resolved through political acquiescence to amoral expediency. Reagan urges citizen awareness of the far-reaching implications of the abortion question. And he makes a reasoned plea for legal acknowledgement that abortion is antithetical to American values in the life of others . . . there is no cause more important."
Appended to Reagan's text are two forceful articles dealing with abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia, which first appeared in Human Life Review: "The Slide to Auschwitz" by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States, and "The Humane Holocaust" by Malcolm Muggeridge, celebrated British critic.
Taken from the inside flaps.
During the decade following the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973, more than 15 million unborn children were legally aborted - a figure that surpasses by more than ten times the combined total of American lives lost in all of the nation's wars.
In an effort to stimulate public awareness, Ronald Reagan forthrightly addressed the volatile issue in his first book written while President of the United States.
Drawing wisdom from some of the world's most respected thinkers and humanitarians, Reagan lays the groundwork for his position by citing philosophical similarities between arguments for racial discrimination and abortion. Medical infanticide, he says, is abortion's logical consequence.
"Regrettably," says Reagan, "we live at a time when some persons do not value all human life. They want to pick and choose which individuals have value. . . . In other words, 'quality control'. . . ."
Reagan examines the philosophy underlying the pro-abortion arguments and exposes a "quality of life" ethic in opposition to a "sanctity of life" ethic. Despite the innocent, harmless, and even positive sound of its rhetoric, the "quality of life" argument covers up a frighteningly selective evaluation of human worth.
The pivotal issue - cannot be resolved through political acquiescence to amoral expediency. Reagan urges citizen awareness of the far-reaching implications of the abortion question. And he makes a reasoned plea for legal acknowledgement that abortion is antithetical to American values in the life of others . . . there is no cause more important."
Appended to Reagan's text are two forceful articles dealing with abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia, which first appeared in Human Life Review: "The Slide to Auschwitz" by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States, and "The Humane Holocaust" by Malcolm Muggeridge, celebrated British critic.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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